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Supply Chain Summit 2024: Collaboration, Social Value and Sustainability in Complex Supply Chains

  • 29 Nov 2024
  • 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds LS1 2HA

Supply Chain Summit 2024: Collaboration, Social Value and Sustainability in Complex Supply Chains

29 November 2024, 09:30-16:30

Cloth Hall Court, Quebec Street, Leeds LS1 2HA

An Ideas in Practice conference from Leeds University Business School in partnership with the Institute for Collaborative Working.

If you haven't signed up yet, even if you are a speaker or panellist, I urge you to do so at your soonest convenience to ensure catering, access and other needs are identified as early as possible.

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09:30 Registration and refreshments
10:00 Welcome

Frank Lee, Chief Executive Officer of the Institute for Collaborative Working
Event chair: David Loseby, Professor of Research Impact at Leeds University Business School
10:05 Keynote: Knowledge and experience

Edward Green OBE, Deputy Director of Commercial Policy at the UK Government Cabinet Office

Knowledge and experience in procurement and supply chains as blockers and enablers to delivering sustainability and social value
10:25 Presentation: Circular supply chains

Jyoti Mishra, Associate Professor in Information Management at Leeds University Business School

Why we need collaboration in circular supply chains
10:45 Presentation: Social impact as a contracted outcome

Chee Yew Wong, Professor of Supply Chain Management at Leeds University Business School, and Brian Walton, Deputy Alliance Director at TRU West Alliance

Collaborating to develop cutting-edge research impact on how supply chains and contracting teams can effectively support entire supply networks
11:10 Refreshment break
11:30 Panel discussion:

Is the public or private sector better placed to deliver on sustainability and social value through complex supply chains?

Chair: David Loseby, Leeds University Business School
Caroline Hinchcliffe, Procurement Lead, Kier Highways
Stephen Rose, Head of Supply Chain Services, National Air Traffic Services
Simon Diggle, Strategic Supplier Development, National Highways
Jane Lynch, Professor of Procurement, Cardiff Business School
12:15 Networking lunch
13:15 Fireside interview: Tackling modern slavery

How can affirmative action reverse the increase of modern slavery through proven approaches and techniques in procurement and supply chain?

Chair: Chee Yew Wong, Leeds University Business School
In conversation with: Mel Worthy, Government Engagement Manager, and Thomas Harrison, Partnerships Manager UK, both British Standards Institution (TBC)
13:45 Fireside interview: Contracts as enablers or blockers

Many contracts seek to transfer all risk and apply financial remedies and incentives to the principal providers of a contract from a purchasing entity. How can we change the paradigm to more collaborative forms of contract that balance risk allocation?

Chair: Dr Matthew Davis, Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School
In conversation with: Tim Cummins, President of World Commerce & Contracting, and Clare Waller, Partner in Commercial and Corporate at Spencer West LLP
14:15 Coffee break
14:30 Breakout sessions:

Chair: David Loseby, Leeds University Business School

Breakout 1:
Costs and resilient supply chains are top priorities to survive as an organisation; how do we keep an actionable focus on sustainability, social value and Scope 3 emissions?
Chair: Gary Graham, Associate Professor at Leeds University Business School

Breakout 2:
How can collaboration across sectors ensure mutually inclusive approaches to social value within supply networks that lead to positive outcomes?
Chair: Gareth Williams, Sustainability Director at TRU West Alliance

Breakout 3:
Where should research focus to ensure we connect circularity, sustainability and social value to ensure practitioner impact?
Chair: Jyoti Mishra, Leeds University Business School
15:15 Closing remarks

Chee Yew Wong, Leeds University Business School
15:30 Drinks reception and networking
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